Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

Fragment ID: 20767

As for shyness, there are two kinds: one is egoistic, being ashamed of expressing the Truth or showing allegiance to it in ways which would not be understood by others, the other is a certain reserve, an unwillingness to expose one’s deeper feelings to the gaze of others, the wish to keep sacred and secret the relations of love with the Divine – that is a psychic feeling.